TU Softball - Post Season Tournaments

[Tax Guy]

C-USA tournament is the top 8 teams from the regular season in a single-elimination tournament, Thursday to Saturday, May 8-10 hosted this year by Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton, Florida. As the number 1 seed, Tulsa plays the 8 seed Charlotte at 3 on Thursday. The winner plays the either 4th seed Florida Atlantic or 5th seed North Texas on Friday at 5:30. Championship game will be on Saturday at 11:00 televised on CBS Sports Network.

NCAA Selection is Sunday, May 11th. 64 teams are selected, the 32 Conference Champions are automatically qualified then the remaining 32 are selected at large, The top 16 are seeded and each placed at the 16 regional sites with 3 other teams.

Regional tournaments are 4 team double elimination format from Friday to Sunday, May 16-18. The 16 winning teams advance to the Super Regionals.

Super Regionals are 2 teams in a best of three series at 8 sites Thursday to Sunday, May 22-25th. The winning 8 teams advance to the Women's College World Series.

Women's College World Series is the 8 teams in a double elimination bracket play down to the 2 final teams, which then play a best of 3 series. Thursday to Wednesday, May 29th to June 4th in OKC.

How far can they go? Like any other it will depend on seeding and match ups but…

Broadcast Information




C-USA Championship game, Saturday, May 10th noon ET on CBS College Sports Network.
Selection Show (championship bracket is announced) ? Sunday, May 11, 2014 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
Select Regional and all Super Regional sites will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks.
All 15-17 games of the WCWS games will be broadcasted on the ESPN family of networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and/or ESPNU).
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[lawpoke87]

Assume we'll get the second seed in the OU regional. Good spot for us as it's close to home and a team we can beat.

 

[Tax Guy]

C-USA Awards

John Bargfeldt - C-USA Coach of the Year
Jill Barrett- All C-USA 1st team and Player of the Year
Aimee Creger - All C-USA 1st team and Pitcher of the Year
Haley Henshaw - All C-USA 1st team
Julie Kernen - All C-USA 1st team
Jill Roye - All C-USA 2nd Team and C-USA All Freshman team
Maggie Withee - C-USA All Freshman team

Great job, Congratulations to all!



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C-USA Awards

 

[TU_BLA]

Through the first 2 and UNCC has only put one ball in play. Creger 4Ks and the 6th out was a foul out.

BTW, the #2 seed UAB lost their opening game to Marshall. East Carolina beat the host and #3 seed FIU.

 

[TU_BLA]

Creger with 8Ks through 4, only 1 baserunner allowed via BB which was wiped out by a DP. TU with runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs in bottom of the 4th.

 

[Tax Guy]

Thursday May 8th Result

Charlotte 0
Tulsa 1

Tulsa had 6 hits 0 Errors and 10 LOB
Charlotte had 1 hit 3 errors and 1 LOB

Tulsa had base runners in every inning finally pushing 1 across in the 7th.

Jill Barrett was 2 for 3 and scored the run
Catherine Horner was 2 for 3 and had the SAC fly RBI

Aimee Creger pitched 7 innings giving up 1 hit and 1 walk and had 13 K

On Edit:
Tulsa will face North Texas at 3:30 UNT defeated Florida Atlantic in 10 innings
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[Tax Guy]

Re: C-USA Awards

C-USA All Academic Team

Jill Barrett (3rd time)- Tulsa, Sr., Greenwood, Ark. - 3.65 GPA, exercise and sports science
Julie Kernen (2nd time) - Tulsa, Jr., St. Louis, Mo. - 3.96 GPA, speech language pathology

Wow and smart too!

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C-USA Announces Softball All-Academic Team

 

[TU_BLA]

The UNT game today SHOULD be the toughest remaining game. Wonder if Creger will go again. UNT has some bats as they showed last weekend. ECU has some bats too.

 

[Tax Guy]

Friday, May 9th result

North Texas 1
Tulsa 7

UNT had 4 hits 3 errors and 9 LOB
Tulsa had 6 hits 0 errors and 6 LOB

Erica Sampson was 2 for 4 with a double and a HR, scored twice and 2 RBI
Cierra (Mist) Hughes was 2 for 3 with a triple scored once and 1 RBI

Aimee Creger pitched 6 innings giving up 1 ER on 3 hits 3 walks and 3 HBP and had 8 K
Caitlin Sill pitched 1 inning giving up 1 hit

Facing Marshall in the Championship game tomorrow.


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[TU_BLA]

Jill Barrett is the best hitter I've ever watched play women's softball. Ridiculous. Everything is a solid line drive somewhere.

 

[Barlass]

CUSA champs!

I hope we don't draw the OU regional. We've lost there 2 out of the last 3 years. 16 teams get to host a regional right? Why the hell can't we host one???

 

[Tax Guy]

Saturday May 10th Results

Marshall 0
Tulsa 8
6 innings

Marshall had 2 hits 1 error and 6 LOB
Tulsa had 8 hits and 0 errors and 6 LOB

Jill Barrett was 2 for 4 scored twice and 2 RBI
Shelby Blanton was 1 for 2 with a double scored 3 times
Erica Sampson was 1 for 4 a 3 RBI double
Julie Kernen was 2 for 3and 1 RBI
Maggie Withee was 1 for 2 and scored a run

Aimee Creger pitched 6 innings giving up 2 hits 3 walks and 12 K

All tournament team includes Barrett, Horner, Hughes and Sampson
Tournament MVP is Creger.

C-USA Champs and earned the autobid in tomorrow's selection Sunday.

 

[TU_BLA]

I believe that is C-USA Championship #56 since 2005. Final chances will come at the C-USA track championships. #domination

 

[TU1NNJ]

Congratulations to the Champions

Go TU!!!

 

[TU 1978]

Congratulations!

Now on to the Waco regionals.

 

[Tax Guy]

Tulsa is in the Waco Regional with Host 13th Seed Baylor, Houston, and Northwestern St.

Baylor finished 42-13 overall 13-5 in the Big 12 for 2nd (no conference tournament) and currently ranked 17th in both polls and 12th in RPI.
Houston finished 32-21 overall and 13-8 for 4th in the AAC, and ranked 43 in RPI.
Northwestern St. (Louisiana) finished 30-20 overall and 15-10 for 2nd in the Southland Conference regular season and won the conference tournament.

The Regionals are a double elimination format.

Friday:
Tulsa will play Houston at 4:30,
followed by NW and Baylor at 7:00

Saturday:
The winners play at Noon.
The losers will play at 2:30.
The loser of the 12:00 game plays the winner of the 2:30 game at 5:00

Sunday:
2 remaining teams play at 1:00 followed by the if necessary game.

If making the trip, allow for highway construction in Waco. Area around the campus was a mess when I drove through there about a month ago.

No TV time for these games.



On edit, I did not notice that times listed were Eastern, I've updated to Central.

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[TU_BLA]

The Baylor softball facility is top notch A-1 facility. Smaller version of Baylor's baseball field essentially. Located just northwest of the Ferrell Center (basketball arena) and right along the Brazos River about 1/2 mile east of I-35. My guess is there is a lot of stadium related construction right off of I-35 as they prepare the area for the opening of Baylor's new football stadium which is right there as well.

Speaking of softball...TU has a legit shot at making it to the Super Regional. Aimee Creger is one of the nation's most dominate pitchers at 27-1 with a very low ERA and a ton of strikeouts. ESPN analysts talked her up during the bracket announcement show last night. I will stick by Jill Barrett being one of the best hitters I've ever seen. You can't really overpower her and you really can't get anything by her in the strike zone. Her approach to hitting reminded me a lot of Barry Bonds...everything she hits is squared up on the barrel (you may not like Bonds and think his power numbers are tainted, but there is no denying that everything he hit was squared up and solid and that cannot be attributed to PEDs). TUs 1-5 hitters are as good as there is in the NCAA this year. Lots of production.

 

[Tax Guy]

Link to streaming.


Tulsa/Houston

 

[eastcane]

Originally posted by Tax Guy:
Link to streaming.

Thanks

 

[eastcane]

Thank goodness for the jet stream on that long fly out to deep left field, Tulsa down 1-0 going into the bottom of the 5th.

 

[eastcane]

Halley Henshaw with a one out home run in the bottom of the 7th to tie it, and Tulsa goes on to load the bases and win it with a shot over the left fielders head, 2-1. Comeback kids.

 

[Rippin]

Wow!

 

[Tax Guy]

Houston 1
Tulsa 2

Houston had 2 hits 0 errors and 5 LOB
Tulsa had 8 hits 0 errors and 10 LOB

Again Tulsa had base runners in every inning, finally pushing 2 over in the final inning.

Jill Barrett was 3 for 3, walked once scored once
Julie Kernen was 2 for 3
Catherine Horner was 1 for 4 with the walk off RBI
Haley Henshaw was 1 for three with a solo HR.

Aimee Creger pitched 7 innings giving up 1 ER on 2 hits 2 walks 2 HBP and had 13 K.

In the later game, Baylor beat Northwestern State 6-1 so Tulsa faces Baylor Saturday at noon.

 

[TU_BLA]

Expect to see Creger in the circle again today. When she has her control she is virtually unhittable. Barrett is one of the best players in the country but because she doesn't play for an SEC or PAC-12 team is virtually unknown. TU softball will make some national noise this week.

 

[eastcane]

Local players dominate this team. The player yesterday that tied the game with a home run late, Halley Henshaw, is a senior from Catoosa. Another local player, OU transfer and Tahlequah star Erica Sampson, gives the team an added power stroke that makes this year's squad more dangerous.

 

[Tax Guy]

Saturday's game streaming link.


Baylor/Tulsa

 

[Tax Guy]

Tulsa 1
Baylor 2

Tulsa had 5 hits 1 error and 7 LOB
Baylor had 6 hits 0 errors and 7 LOB

Jill Barrett was 1 for 3 and 1 IBB
Julie Kernen was 1 for 3 and scored the run
Cierra Hughes was 1 for 3 and triple and the 1 RBI
Jodi Edmonston was 1 for 2 with a double

Aimee Creger pitched 7 innings giving up the 2 runs 0 ER on 6 hits 3 walks and had 6 K

Houston beat Northwestern and to face Tulsa.


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[Tax Guy]

Tulsa vs. Houston streaming link.

Starts at 5:50


Tulsa vs. Houston

 

[Tax Guy]

The 2nd elimination games tend to get a little wild. This one did not disappoint.

Tulsa 10
Houston 6

Tulsa had 14 hits 2 errors and 9 LOB
Houston had 7 hits 2 errors and 11 LOB

Tulsa scored in every inning, Houston all but 2.

Jill Barrett was 2 for 4 scored twice with a triple and 1 RBI
Shelby Blanton was 3 for 5 with a double and a triple scored twice and 1 RBI
Erica Sampson was 4 for 5 with a double and a HR scored 3 times and 4 RBI
Catherine Horner was 2 for 5 with a double and a HR scored once and had 1 RBI

Bailey Erwin pitched 3 innings gave up 4 runs 3 ER on 6 hits 1 walk and had 1 K
Caitlin Sill got the Win pitching 4 innings giving up 2 ER on 1 hit 7 walks and had 2 K

With the win Tulsa faces Baylor, Sunday at 1:00

 

[Tax Guy]

Sunday 1:00 game streaming link.


Baylor/Tulsa

 

[Tax Guy]

Tulsa Baylor if necessary game streaming link.

Tulsa/Baylor game 2

 

[TU 1978]

Not to complain, but is this what we're relegated to once we get this far? The streaming link provided has been unwatchable, with jerky video that will make your eyes bleed.

I was hoping that ESPNU or another cable network would have these games.

 

[lawpoke87]

There are sixteen regional sites. Even ESPN doesn't have enough channels to cover all these games. Add to that some college baseball and Lacrosse and you get two channels dedicated for softball this weekend. I'm not even sure our super regional will be televised should we beat Baylor twice today as it won't involve a "name" team and baseball will be in the conference tourney weekend.

 

[eastcane]

Well, the best looking left fielder in softball just advanced Tulsa to the championship game. Sampson has power and fielding ability, quite the transfer.

 

[Rippin]

The video stream has worked very well for me (on my laptop). Thanks, TaxGuy, for the link and for keeping us posted on the tournament in general! Absolutely great effort and performance by the team!

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[Tax Guy]

Sunday's Results:

Game 1

Baylor 0
Tulsa 1
11 innings

Tulsa had 6 hits 0 errors and 7 LOB
Baylor had 6 hits 1 error and 7 LOB

Jill Barrett was 2 for 4 and a IBB
Erica Sampson was 2 for 5 with the solo HR

Aimee Creger pitched the 11 innings giving up 6 hits 2 walks and had 6 K

Game 2

Tulsa 1
Baylor 3

Tulsa had 8 hits 1 error and 9 LOB
Baylor had 7 hits 2 errors and 8 LOB

Jill Barrett was 2 for 4 scored the run
Catherine Horner was 1 for 4 with the RBI
Julie Kernen was 1 for 3 with a double
Cierra Hughes was 2 for 3

Caitlin Sill took the Loss pitching 4 innings giving up 3 ER on 6 hits 2 walks and had 1 K
Bailey Erwin pitched 2 innings giving up 0 EF 1 hit and had 3 K.

Great Season Ladies!

 

[TU 1978]

Great season, ladies!

 

[TU1NNJ]

Congrats ladies on a great season

 

[Barlass]

With Barrett up with the bases loaded in the 6th I thought for sure we were going to tie the game up.
Tough way to end the season but a great season it was.

 

[Tax Guy]

2014 Season Records

Individual:


Aimee Creger set single season school records for: wins (29), strikeouts (354), shutouts (13), lowest opponent batting average (.138), most strikeouts/7 inn. (11.53), innings pitched (215.0), and strikeouts looking (115). She tied for most starts (34). Creger's 1.14 ERA ranks fourth on the single season chart. Jill Barrett set single season school records for batting average (.461), on-base percentage (.510), hits (101), runs scored (59) and at bats (219). Barrett's 127 total bases ranks second, while her four intentional walks ties for second on the single season chart. Erica Sampson finished third in runs scored (51), fifth in home runs (13), tied for eighth in RBI (45), ninth in slugging percentage (.590), 10th in on-base percentage (.444), and tied for ninth in total bases (111). Sampson set the school record for most time hit by pitch (14). Shelby Blanton finished fifth in runs scored (48), tied for second in triples (5), sixth in at bats (202). Cierra Hughes tied for second in triples (5) and seventh in walks (32). Julie Kernen finished fifth in doubles (17), tied for fourth in sacrifice flies (4), and tied for seventh in most times hit by pitch (7). Barrett, Blanton and Sampson all tied for ninth most games started (62). The school season record is 64 games started. Before 2014, only one player had scored 50 runs in a season (Caitlin Everett, 55, 2012). Two - Barrett and Sampson - did it this year. Only five players had ever scored 45 runs in a season before 2014. Three - Barrett, Sampson and Blanton - scored 48 runs this season. Before 2014, only two players had ever hit five triples in one season (Everett, 6, 2012; Kameron White, 5, 1994). Three players - Barrett, Blanton and Cierra Hughes - hit five triples this season.
Team

Tulsa set team single season records for wins (53) and fewest losses (9). Tulsa set single season offensive records for: batting average (.325), slugging percentage (.504), on-base percentage (.404), runs scored (368), hits (553), triples (21), home runs (59), RBI (333), total bases (858), walks (206), tied for most intentional walks (6) and most times hit by pitch (29). Tulsa set single season pitching records for: most strikeouts (479), lowest opponent batting average (.183), most strikeouts/7 inn. (8.04), fewest hits allowed (271), most strikeouts looking (149). Tulsa also finished second in fewest runs allowed (122) and third in fewest earned runs allowed (91), TU tied for second in most shutouts (21) and finished third in most innings pitched (417.0). Tulsa also turned its first triple play in program history in 2014. Head Coach John Bargfeldt recorded his 300th and 350th wins in 2014. His career coaching record now stands at 352-169-1 after nine seasons
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This post was edited on 5/19 1:51 PM by Tax Guy